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In short
Janma Rashi, the "birth rashi", is the sidereal sign the Moon occupied at birth. In ordinary Indian usage it is what "your rashi" means. This app computes it from the birth date alone, uses it as the starting point for Sade Sati, Ashtama Sani and every transit reading, and warns when the Moon changed sign during the birth date.
What the term means
Janma Rashi is the rashi the Moon was in at the moment of birth, measured on the sidereal zodiac. It is the same thing as the Vedic Moon sign, and when someone in India gives "my rashi" without qualification, this is usually the sign they mean. It is not the Western Sun sign, which uses a different body and a different zodiac.
Where the term comes from
Saravali uses the phrase in its chapter on the tenth house (Ch. 33), where combinations are read "in the 10th from his Janma Rasi", alternating with the plainer "in the 10th of the Moon" for the same count. Daivajna Vallabha, a book of horary questions, names the janma rasi and its lord in the horoscope of an opponent (Sl. 25 of the queries on enemies). BPHS does not use the phrase; it speaks of the Moon's rashi directly and, for the dashas, of the Moon's birth nakshatra.
How this app uses it
- The Janma Rashi is the Moon's sidereal longitude divided by 30. It needs no birth time: for 19 January 1985 in New Delhi the engine places the Moon in Dhanu (Sagittarius) at 12.66 degrees whether or not the time is given.
- It is the reference point for Saturn's Sade Sati and Ashtama Sani and for the general transit reading, all counted from this sign.
- The Moon moves about thirteen degrees a day, so by the engine's own count it changes sign on close to half of all birth dates. Without a birth time the Moon-sign calculator therefore reports the sign at both ends of the date and says whether they differ.
Pages that use this term
- Moon sign and nakshatra - why "your rashi" means the Moon's sign.
- Sade Sati - Saturn's seven and a half years counted from the Janma Rashi.
- Ashtama Sani - Saturn in the 8th from the same sign.
- Moon sign calculator - the Janma Rashi from a birth date.
- Sade Sati calculator - today's Saturn against your Janma Rashi.
Related terms
- Janma Nakshatra - the Moon's birth nakshatra.
- Chandra Lagna - the Janma Rashi used as the 1st house.
- Gochara - transits read from it.
- Sun sign - what it is often confused with.
Moon Sign (Chandra Rashi)
Your Rashi in the sidereal zodiac, with the nakshatra the Moon was standing in.
This date is sent only to compute the answer. Nothing is stored, no account is created, and no email is asked for.